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Google, Uber, Coinbase, Basecamp, HN's own pg - they were all in news because of racism and/or sexism.
Are you sarcasting?
Re:WordPress 18 on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:54AM (#27313478)
I should have added it was sarcasm :(
Re:Replacements for existing software written in Rust on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:39AM (#27313360)
There's also 'Conduit', a Matrix server written in Rust. It's alpha currently.

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/conduit

Re:WordPress 18 on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:08AM (#27313228)
Fun fact - Textpattern and WordPress are both 18yrs old, PHP and GPL.
Re:WordPress 18 on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:50AM (#27313118)
In software engineering, CI/CD or CICD is the combined practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment.[1]

In short everything has to be continuous, otherwise you'll stall and die. Now go buy some CI/CD from the shop.

[1] wikipedia

Re:Manifest v3 Update on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:48AM (#27312443)
I think most tracking is not visible to the user, as in seeing an ad.

About CNAME, I think this is what you're looking for:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301

Re:Manifest v3 Update on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:41AM (#27312401)
But your parent link indeed shows that ublock origin on chrome is crippled when compared to firefox, not just performance benefits.

More about CNAME:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26347110

Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:26AM (#27312330)
Better ask that to a vet directly, if possible.
Counter anecdata - that's not my experience. Idk about US though.
If so a 'saleswoman' who "was previously a Ph.D. candidate at Oxford in a relevant field & have a B.Sc. in neuroscience from UT Austin" though.

Also when it comes to VCs, you gotta sell it. Or perish. And if you are gonna sell it, you better have some strategies. This is independent of how good your idea is. Maybe there will be an utopia where VCs consider things only on merit, but that is not the general reality right now.

Very early on in the article she says she 'did not discover the science behind the company'.
Re:Second-guessing the modern web (2020) on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:26AM (#27312021)
Really good witty talk on 'The website obesity crisis'. Must watch IMO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpl0QVCr6U

Re:Old Reddit Redirect for MS Edge Contains Malware on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:24PM (#27308736)
HTTPS Everywhere can be used for redirection. It's from EFF, so trustworthy.
Re:Manifest v3 Update on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:36PM (#27307199)
Also ublock origin on Firefox has significant advantages over that in chrome

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Touchscreens have vibration feedback when clicking buttons etc
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:52AM (#27303848)
[1] Tanya Khovanova, Soviet-American mathematician who became the second female gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiads.

https://www.tanyakhovanova.com/

[2] Filippo Valsorda (cryptography)

https://filippo.io/

[3] David Wong (cryptography)

https://www.cryptologie.net/

[4] OpenBSD everything

https://www.undeadly.org/

[5] blog with some funny articles

https://idlewords.com/

[6] Might need a proxy/VPN to access this site

https://www.otherhand.org/

[7] Not a blog but something nice

https://thenicestplace.net/

Edit:

[8] weekly useful/curious datasets

https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/

[9] documenting startups getting swallowed by the big fish

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/